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...remarkably short time Tartu: 1) locates key friends and key foes, 2) gets the job at the gas works, 3) does a broken-field run through the intricate perils which arise from the fact that he is suspected by friend & foe alike, 4) completes his explosive assignment in the hotfooted course of one of those thrilling, dreamlike chases in which pursuers stick out their chins for the hero, great iron doors delay their closing just long enough for him to skin through, and a car and plane synchronize a getaway as happy, and unlikely, as a chain letter that really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 20, 1943 | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Completing the all-House backfield, fullback Lee Sosman supplies the plunging power that headed the Dunster offense this fall. Tom Sullivan of Dudley, who showed some very good broken-field running in the few games he played, was the only backfield alternate chosen...

Author: By Melvin J. Kessel, | Title: Bunnies Capture Top Honors in '42 All-House Team Selections | 11/18/1942 | See Source »

...Winthrop score in the first quarter on a brilliant 60-yard run by speedy wingback Joe Moore, was called back by the referee. He claimed that during the course of Moore's long broken-field run he had stepped outside the indistinctly marked sideline on the B. C. 35-yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURITAN ELEVEN DEFEATS B. C. INTRAMURAL TEAM | 11/3/1942 | See Source »

...managed to get 130 onetime players assigned to football detail. Standouts among the Eastern squad are Corporal Norman Standlee (fullback terror of Stanford's famed T formation and more recently the bugaboo of the big bad Chicago Bears), Lieut. Harold Van Every (one of Minnesota's slickest broken-field runners and later star of the monstrous Green Bay Packers) and Corporal George Cafego (tailback on Tennessee's recent wonder team). The Western Lineup boasts Lieut. John Kimbrough (Texas Aggies' 220-lb. fullback who got $9,000 for six pro games last year) and three others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rah, Rah, U.S.A. | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...head cheerleader, set up the details for Harvard's third rally in the Varsity Club quadrangle to be held Friday night, before the Brown game. Featured speakers will be All-American Guard candidate Club Peabody and Vern Miller, whose subject, it is rumored, will deal with the intricacies of broken-field running. Also on the list are Captain Franny Lee, Coach Harlow, and Bill LaCroix, Jayvee captain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlow to Reveal Strategy At Harvard-Army Movies | 11/12/1941 | See Source »

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